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Canadian transport wagons move through the streets, crowded with civilians. More civilians cross a fragile-looking plank bridge over the river, which has replaced a damaged iron bridge. Marching colum...

(Reel 1) Soldiers, probably 57th (West Lancashire) Division, use hoses and ladders to suppress a fire raging in one house. In the main square the streets have been cleared of rubble but all the buildi...

Image: Map with caption: "Tank Battle at Cambrai 1917"; the directions of the German troops are marked.1st intertitle: The English attempt to break through at Cambrai failed in spite of the use of sev...

A nursing home behind the lines with Jules Copin, his wife and child, and two blind aunts, led by two nurses. Copin was a French soldier captured by the Germans in September 1914 who escaped and was h...

Impressions of the town of Cambrai where a big fire has turned the city ito ruins. Images of an army column and a canon-ball that is being shot.

Ambulances in the main square at Marcoing shortly after its capture, 20 November. There is no great damage to the square apart from broken windows, a hall with the sign "Justice de Paix" over it and a...

A poster lists the various "Electoral Districts in Canada". Polling took place between 1 and 17 December. Men of 7th Brigade, Canadian 3rd Division read the poster. The brigade is 49th (Edmonton) Batt...

Reportage about a visit from the German emperor, during the First World War, to the front in Northern France and Ghent.

Cartographic film about the development of the March Offensive (Operation "Michael") from March 20th to March 30th, 1918, which advances 17 km before finally coming to a halt near the city of Amiens.1...

Christmas Journey of the EmperorIntertitle 1: In the winter forest. Intertitle 2: Home for Christmas. (Intertitles 1 -2 and pictures are missing) Intertitle 3: Goodbye. Image: Waving soldiers. Inte...

The forces are mainly from the Cavalry Corps, including not only horsemen but Austin armoured cars, improvised armoured lorries, pontoon bridging wagons and cyclists, all in a headlong rush up the roa...

A German 150mm gun is towed into a wood east of Ribecourt on the Marcoing road by a Mark IV female tank HMLS 'Intimidate' (of 'I' Company, Tank Corps ?) and met by men of the Royal Artillery and (prob...

An unarmed Mark IV Male crushes barbed wire as soldiers mark its progress. An unarmed Mark IV Female comes up to the camera. Tank crews perform maintenance on "HMLS Daphne" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE...

View down the length of a straight road lined with trees. A British staff car, probably the cameraman's, is parked by the road, and an officer watches, back to camera, as lines of refugees come up the...

I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the march of half of 38th (Jewish) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, past the Lord Mayor in London, 4th February 1918. II. Spanish language version of a new...

(Reel 25) The episode starts with 'Justice'. The opening states that this was "the great final offensive, in which the whole might of Britain's arms was concentrated, with an overwhelming force, upon ...